Theresa May hopes to 'turn a corner' in the new year
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“2019 can be the year we put our differences aside and move forward together, into a strong new relationship with our European neighbours and out into the world as a globally trading nation,” she said.
But the Americans dealt a blow to May’s hopes for a show of parliamentary unity, with the US ambassador in London, Woody Johnson, saying under May’s proposed Brexit, the US and UK would not be able to strike a “quick, very massive bilateral trade deal”.
“It doesn’t look like it would be possible,” Johnson said of the US-UK free-trade deal President Trump envisions, because May’s deal, including the controversial “backstop” provision, leaves the UK to too close to Europe, and Trump would reject a broad deal under those circumstances.
“He [Trump] is looking forward to and hoping that the environment will lead to the ability of the US to do a quick, very massive bilateral trade deal that could be the precursor of future trade deals with other countries around the world for Great Britain that will really take you way, way into an exciting future,” he told the BBC’s Radio 4.
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